For centuries it has been assumed that William Shakespeare was a Protestant who fell in line with the religious beliefs of Elizabethan England. But Clare Asquith, an independent scholar, suggests that ...

The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley ...

So claimed Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s friend and contemporary upon the man’s passing in 1616 at age 52. Which has turned out to be the case. Shockingly, it almost wasn’t so. Ten years after the ...

Shakespearean education is no longer limited to the classroom. Hosted by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA, the upcoming Bard in the Yard event Tuesday in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden will ...

When it comes to literary works on film, no one touches William Shakespeare. The 38 plays he wrote between 1589 and 1616, the year of his death, account for around 1,220 big- and small-screen ...

COLUMBUS — A club celebrating the Bard of Avon is having its own celebration this year: Columbus’s Shakespeare Club is honoring 120 years of fandom and scholarship of the legendary playwright. Begun ...

Jason Young, co-founder of West Virginia’s only touring Shakespeare troupe, rejects the notion that his group, the Rustic Mechanicals, might be playing the role of savior bringing culture to ...

Visible and invisible - 4th Wall Stage Company explores 'Shakespeare Through A Disability Lens' in new production ...

The Berkshires-based theater troupe will present "Twelfth Night" and the return of a circus-Bard mashup production ...

Syracuse Shakespeare-In-The-Park celebrates the Bard’s 458th birthday with the announcement of the 2022-23 season. The festival’s two traditional, free summer shows at Thornden Park Amphitheatre ...

“Circus & The Bard,” a collaboration between Shakespeare & Company and the Florida-based Spirit of the Circus, is an effort to make the external as visceral as the internal. As it turns out, the ...